Removing whitespaces with layerlist and arcpy.Describe

Question

This is an old problem with a new twist. I need to take map packages and extract all of the temp data into a geodatabase using feature class to feature class. I need a good work around for getting rid of spaces in baseNames before sending them through arcpy.Desribe(x).baseName there are simply too many files in too many temp locations to do this the hard way. Here is my naming script, before I throw my feature class to feature class function script:

import arcpy
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
lyrs = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd)
for layer in lyrs:
    name = arcpy.Describe(layer).baseName
    name = name.replace("-", "_")
    #name = name.replace(" ", "_")
    layer.name = name
    print name
arcpy.RefreshTOC()

Obviously the name.replace(" ", "_") isn't going to work because it is after the arcpy.Describe function. Is there a way I can use arcpy to make a list of the layers and use that list with os to access each layer in a loop to change the filename? One problem with this solution is that half of the mpk files are in a geodatabase and half are lone shape files. Obviously those in a gdb are in correct formatting though.

Answer 1

You will have to forgive me, an easy mistake for someone who has been away from python for a handful of months, this is all I needed to get my layer names to work with arcpy.Describe enough to complete the task in the next script.

import arcpy
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
lyrs = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd)
try:
    for layer in lyrs:
        name = layer
        name = str(name)
        name = name.replace("-", "_")
        name = name.replace(" ","")
        name = name.replace(",","_")
        name = name.replace("(","_")
        name = name.replace(")","")
        layer.name = name
        print name
except:
    print "oops"
arcpy.RefreshTOC()